# Protecting Job Components

The process of protecting individual job components is similar for each type of component.

1. Select the job component to protect, right-click the component and select Protect from the menu.

2. The Protect Component dialog will be displayed, where you can set the password.

   Note:

   - If multiple components have been selected for protection, the dialog will state "[multiple items]" to indicate multiple components are being assigned a password.

   - When multiple components are selected, they must all share the same password.

3. Once a job component is protected, a key icon will be placed beside the protected component:

4. To open the component, you must enter the assigned component password.

Note:

Once a component has been protected, the protection can be removed by following the steps above, but selecting Unprotect from the right-click menu, instead.